This informative text is the product of the Internet Age which brought
together people researching their roots to their ancestral town of Calitri in
Southern Italy. They came to know one another and, in many cases, rekindled
old friendships and discovered distant relatives in second and third cousins.
They began sharing stories on the Net of the good old days, recalling
neighborhoods where their parents and grandparents had settled after
emigrating from Italy. These communities included Brooklyn, New Rochelle,
Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry, Batavia, Mount Vernon in New York; Montclair,
Paterson, Newark in New Jersey; Stamford, Bridgeport, Torrington in
Connecticut; Dunmore in Pennsylvania; Washington, DC and Pittsfield, MA. Their
recollections proved to be so interesting and poignant to all that they needed
to be set down in permanent form and preserved for future generations. Mario
Toglia of New York initiated this book project with Josephine Galgano Gore,
Angela Cicoira Moloney, Fred Rabasca, Rick Morris and Mary Margotta Basile,
descendents of original immigrants from Calitri. The book contains over 100
personal and biographical stories, which illustrate various aspects of the
lives, traditions and customs of the Calitrani community within the Italian
immigrant experience. Also included are several newspaper articles and
obituaries, as well as a list of more than 4000 Calitrani names who settled inAmerica.